[MinnowBoard] : How does one run MS-DOS on a MinnowBoard MAX (or turbot)?
Berth-Olof Bergman
bo.bergman at winzenttech.com
Wed May 4 17:08:57 UTC 2016
Hi Gerard,
I send our legacy BIOS for Max and Turbot to your email address at tekmagic.net <http://tekmagic.net/>
Best regards,
B-O
> 4 maj 2016 kl. 18:37 skrev Gerard Bucas <gerard.b at tekmagic.net>:
>
> Hi B-O
>
> Interesting...
>
> Which BIOS do you use to boot MSDOS?
>
> Curious....
>
> Gerard
>
>> On May 4, 2016, at 6:12 PM, Berth-Olof Bergman <bo.bergman at winzenttech.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi Gerard,
>>
>> Please let me know how you are doing with this and also the MSDOS boot.
>>
>> For your info, I use MSDOS a lot on Minnowboard Max/Turbot booting from SD card or USB thumb drive. It’s the best way to test the BIOS and the firmware.
>>
>> Best regards,
>>
>> B-O
>>
>>> 4 maj 2016 kl. 17:25 skrev Gerard Bucas <gerard.b at tekmagic.net>:
>>>
>>> Hi B-O,
>>>
>>> Thanks for this feedback/tip. Will make sure we check this out as well.
>>>
>>> Much appreciated.
>>>
>>> Gerard
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Berth-Olof Bergman [mailto:bo.bergman at winzenttech.com]
>>> Sent: Wednesday, May 4, 2016 9:50 AM
>>> To: gerard.b at tekmagic.net; MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
>>> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
>>> Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] : How does one run MS-DOS on a MinnowBoard MAX
>>> (or turbot)?
>>>
>>> Hi Gerard,
>>>
>>> In case you have problem with a second NIC in the PCI expansion bus using
>>> the silver jaw lure, the problem is the violation of PCI timing as the
>>> PLTRST# signal is not used to reset the NIC. They use the PWROK signal to
>>> reset the NIC and on a reboot the PWROK remains high. In the case of full
>>> reset from PCI reset register the PWROK gets initial low and then high, but
>>> violates the PCI bus reset protocol as the RESET# signal should remain low
>>> for at least 100 mS after power (PWROK) is stable.
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>>
>>> B-O
>>> Winzent Technologies
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> 4 maj 2016 kl. 11:54 skrev Gerard Bucas <gerard.b at tekmagic.net>:
>>>>
>>>> Hi Brian,
>>>>
>>>> That is a really good question! :)
>>>>
>>>> We have a couple of PCB designs which one could consider as
>>>> MinnowBoard MAX "derivatives". On one of the designs (PCB) we have a
>>>> serious problem with reliable access to the Realtek 8111 NiC, even
>>>> though "on paper" (schematics,
>>>> etc) the two PCB's have the same NiC designs (so in one design
>>>> everything on the PCB works perfectly while on the other there seems
>>>> to be some PCI bus access issues to the NiC). We have tried different
>>>> drivers and other OS level debugging (mainly linux based) but can't
>>>> seem to isolate the problem (sometimes lspci will list the Realtek NiC
>>>> after a reboot and sometimes not and when it does get detected/listed
>>>> by lspci, the whole lspci entry is occasionally corrupted and shows FF
>>>> FF, etc). Obviously sounds/smells/looks like a PCI bus problem
>>>> (differential pair impedance, component differences, PCB layout
>>>> differences, etc..) but we can't seem to isolate it. So we would like
>>>> to do some "lower level" testing/checking of PCI enumeration and maybe
>>>> other PCI debugging tools. One of the tools we wanted to play with runs on
>>> MS-DOS.
>>>>
>>>> However, someone just pointed me at UEFI app:
>>>> https://github.com/JamesAmiTw/ru-uefi/raw/master/5.17.0284.zip
>>>> which should actually be able to run as an EFI app on our normal
>>>> minnow-derived firmware/BIOS. So need to check that out as well.
>>>>
>>>> If you have any other ideas or pointers please let me know.
>>>>
>>>> Thanks & Regards
>>>>
>>>> Gerard
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: elinux-MinnowBoard
>>>> [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Richardson, Brian
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 3, 2016 8:45 PM
>>>> To: MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion
>>>> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
>>>> Subject: Re: [MinnowBoard] : How does one run MS-DOS on a MinnowBoard
>>>> MAX (or turbot)?
>>>>
>>>> What is the low-level debugging requirement? Does it need to be run in
>>>> DOS or just at a level below the OS?
>>>>
>>>> Thanks ... br
>>>> ---
>>>> Brian Richardson, Senior Technical Marketing Engineer, Intel Software
>>>> brian.richardson at intel.com --
>>>> http://evangelists.intel.com/bio/Brian_Richardson_
>>>>
>>>> -----Original Message-----
>>>> From: elinux-MinnowBoard
>>>> [mailto:elinux-minnowboard-bounces at lists.elinux.org] On Behalf Of
>>>> Gerard Bucas
>>>> Sent: Tuesday, May 03, 2016 7:43 PM
>>>> To: 'MinnowBoard Development and Community Discussion'
>>>> <elinux-minnowboard at lists.elinux.org>
>>>> Subject: [MinnowBoard] : How does one run MS-DOS on a MinnowBoard MAX
>>>> (or turbot)?
>>>>
>>>> Resent with better subject line....
>>>>
>>>> Does anyone know how one could bot MS-DOS on a MBM/T?
>>>>
>>>> Would like to do this for some low-level debugging we need to do.
>>>>
>>>> I assume it needs a "legacy BIOS" but from what I read the winzent
>>>> legacy BIOS (which is due soon) is not yet available?
>>>>
>>>> Any help would be appreciated!
>>>>
>>>> Regards
>>>>
>>>> Gerard
>>>>
>>>>
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